really i. would like is the saying isn't to go suspending is britain sell spree begins we look at exactly who is pocketing the profit. careless candidate to run the walls of the country is making a dangerous move following washington in taking a rainy and militant group off the talent's we examine that in more detail. and damascus blames terrorists for killing twenty including children and little while the rebels accuse the regime but still seems to be no clear picture behind each finger point. i

am. aware that if you just joined us for a good evening to review watching around the world it's kevin owen here tonight at the r.t. new center in our top story tonight bargain hunters right in force with shops reporting record boxing day takings both in store and online for the shoppers are keeping the u.k. still ringing when you might be surprised to know though the people whose pockets are being lined polyploid in finding out a bit more about that. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i

assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok now you know the reason the things are getting. almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like boots the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames

water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pickle selling off hartley's just. some people and also closing down some of their home. and you know it's interesting what's the reaction analysts say great news for investors although it is bleak news just before christmas. as for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around the world where we have a huge network of of good international falls i think is

a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control and supply and that made in london there maybe in paris and in berlin or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move their headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of that was boots the chemist which was a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds in corporation tax and they reduced that then to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax payer increases an income tax of the eighty or other forms of taxation it has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every overseas bed france for example argues that it's in their national interest

to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell polly boy artsy london. those warning keller this way the dangerous move by taking a notorious a radian militant group off its target list khaled is following a similar move to the united states in accepting that the m.e. kay has renounced violence wants peaceful regime change in iran refresh the looks of the organizations record of his from some rainy i'm so aware of legitimizing it mohammed shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard big ambition like this is

how we killed time and the pain from torture and hunger i still get headaches when i remember this terrible admission valley iranian soldier mohammed spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the one thousand nine hundred eighty s. iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek image he didn't help to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members a month reasoners but mohamed refused by them they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran's shar and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the us embassy siege in teheran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after these

lawmakers evolution with the association of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one nine hundred ninety seven m. a k. joined america's least of terrorist organizations along with al qaeda and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq still view ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic ah this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get and make a off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that campaign i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s.

policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying we came a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main supporters of this to reduce groups or counters because they use from that through to through political ads. new yorker reporter in his article called our men iran reveals how members of em ek were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada one one this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country and they're using terrorism as a tool and out of those questionable ties between israel and iran according to

america's n.b.c. network and named u.s. officials confirmed and make a was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service my son by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after a pair of victim an iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as mid and york is a very poor poor and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort how to fight the here on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven mohammad says and make a recognized as a democratic alternative to reign in authorities feel surreal to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to me for national party from iran syria leaders claim

terrorist groups the deadly shelling in northern syria earlier opposition activists said the attack that killed twenty with at least eight thought to be children was carried out by government forces without in a province that's seen fighting escalate in recent months a middle east correspondent paula slayer's got the latest. damascus has announced that it is terrorist groups who are behind this deadly massacre in the northern province of raka what we do know is that at least twenty people have been killed eight of them are children now they were early reports by activist groups that it was in fact government forces who were behind this deadly shelling but that sense has been refuted one of the main groups to come to the fore is a u.k. based activist group known as the syrian observateur for human rights the pictures are currently witnessing are pictures that they are distributing on you tube they cannot be verified of the point has been made by the russian foreign ministry that this was a group that relies on some two people and so these kind of reports need to be

taken with a pinch of salt and we constantly hear reports coming out of syria with each side accusing the other of perpetrating calamities indeed what we've witnessing happening in syria is a media war is a misinformation war that is increasingly difficult to verify been hearing now for several days the rebel fighters in syria claiming that assad's forces are using chemical weapons on them what they saying is that the injuries that civilians are coming forward with are injuries that do point to some kind of exposure to a poisonous gas that they're consistent with those kind of injuries the fact is though that they need to be a lot of question marks around this now we all know that israel is no friend of syria but we are hearing from the israeli vice prime minister who was casting doubt over these claims by the global freitas moshe ya'alon the israeli vice prime minister sort of this is not the first time that there has been such claims made by will fighters and he has made the point that the opposition in syria has

a vested interest in making such claims as a way of getting foreign military intervention he also says that there is no proof for any kind of confirmation that indeed assad's forces are using chemical weapons now. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has also made the point that the chemical weaponry within syria is being contained we have been receiving reports that it has moved to two locations what we witnessing again here is the continuation of this misinformation war the fighting in syria continues to intensify we're likely to continue to fear such kind of a course in the coming days and certainly we will do our best to try and verify the sources here paula slayer afghanistan's using tens of millions of dollars in tax we talk about that so the foreign ministry's fingers point to get nato link with dodging the jews because the country relies on the alliances protection report a month later add to the calls to move major events in twenty twelve as we take

a look at the u.s. presidential race tonight and the car that is sidelined by the main news outlets we give them a voice that is all ahead. i never thought i could earn a living this way latterly a show of ours alone or should just small arms or does what i was to show in building plant lot are the source count of all the weapons she's fired over the past twelve years. i got so used to it sometimes my friends ask me to join them at the rifle range and i say no way i'm so tired of shooting. the plant's history goes from making firearms during world war two to ballistic missiles from nuclear submarines during the cold war the bulk of the soviet industry was moved here in the 1940's to flee the virus and germans so if you were also became the heart of

soviet military production closed off to foreigners for half a century it thrived on the message of the soviet military when the u.s.s.r. collapsed but life here was shaken to the core but some adapted to better than others. this is the fuel truck factory russia's number one truck maker or rather than look at how well the workplace is organized everything's gone to make sure the work is done time there was so production is booming the factory has largely managed to get on to civil rails these giants are sold around the globe hair but it's a brand new be the way to be delivered to acquire seventy trucks like this one roll up the bronx conveyor belt every day look at about this things that absolutely huge . well i'm no formula one pilot but hopefully if i can get

that. well i can go far to drive. was planning to get one of these to travel to whatever in the morning but with a cost of about forty thousand dollars i should start saving money. speak your language. programs and documentaries and spanish what matters to you. i will turn it into angles keep the story. here to. teach spanish find out more visit actuality bad.

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. logan thanks for being with us tonight r.t. . for a ministry says the country has lost over seventy million dollars in taxes foreign firms linked to nato are avoiding paying their dues the report says tax dodges rely on the u.s. led bloc to pressure carbo into staying off their backs political analyst and former. told me afghanistan's trapped in a vicious circle of corruption perpetrated by both locals and foreign. what was

going on in two thousand and one two thousand and two when the interim authority came to existence in this country they signed deals exempting some of these companies who were dealing with neato and i say and then. many other companies came and started. carpetbagging and backpacking. illegitimate gains and they never paid taxes this is not new and this government will never have the guts to collect taxes from those rogue companies just an aviation alone. there are dozens and dozens of companies who are bringing passengers and cargo to this country and who are bringing other goods and they have never paid any taxes they've never paid even landing fees in some cases they have been paid over flight fees this is just aviation and you can imagine in other fields of commerce in. fuel and transportation and logistics and security in other arenas in all areas

there are hundreds of millions of dollars every year there are scaping and this government also sometimes gives them some reprieve by reducing their taxes and exchange for bribes there's a warning to israel tonight that its settlements expansion is a threat to peace and the two state solution with the palestinians israel's most recent announcement of twelve hundred more homes in these two still brings the total number of housing units planned in the past few weeks to five and a half thousand these are illegal under international law but around half a million people already live in israeli settlements peace campaigner wrong pundit told me their fate on the expansion of homes become political bargaining chips. settlements is definitely within the vocabulary of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we see only innovation of the discourse from the prime minister and the round on the issue of

settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not to the ality and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand to being divided at all two hundred thousand titles within jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we really delineate the borders of jerusalem then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close to just sent to the green line would become part of israel within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offered and shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so between us and peace will be standing

one hundred thousand is where it's which we'll have to go over and be accepted and we'll be hired by israel and we compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes with the national interest of the majority of israelis. movie about osama bin laden spoke the cia website would tell you why america's intelligence community was so worried by what they saw they want to consider the drama not a documentary about what really happened. could be sustainable thanks to bacteria from siberia the saying that now you get the. story from. wealthy british. right let's.

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russians of ours of parliament approved a ban on u.s. citizens adopting russian children the draft law is in response to washington's magnitsky act which bans entry and freezes assets on russian officials allegedly

involved in human rights violations the adoption of strictures got unanimous backing in the chamber it now needs presidential approval to become law the act is named after a deal of live a two year old russian boy who died after his adoptive u.s. father left him in a car in a hot day the makers say it targets america's lax treatment towards those who let russian children suffer but critics claim the move deprives thousands of orphans of a chance to find a loving family and we take you through some more world news no brief this hour and there's been an explosion of fireworks were close in nigeria's large city the resulting blaze destroyed neighboring buildings in lagos with the initial blast shaking the windows of homes several kilometers away at least one person has been killed over thirty if you treated for the injuries there. thousands of iraqis rallied against the shiite led government demanding more protection of rights for certainly the testers accused link isn't trying to marginalize them drawing the country it's a terrible conflict it's the third major protest in less than a week since the arrest of ten bodyguards of

a senior sunni official the community launched an insurgency in iraq after the two thousand and three u.s. led war of shia majority. iran says it's preferred to conduct a week of naval drills now in the gas fields of the strait of hormuz in the persian gulf. missile defense systems will be tested and says it's a peaceful demonstration of iran's defensive capabilities promising it won't violate international law and will respect the maritime borders of neighboring countries. egypt's president hailed the new constitution as paving the road to democracy and urged dialogue between all political groups in the deeply polarized country mohamed morsi delivered his first national address since signing the charter into law the opposition insists both the vote though and the constitution is seriously flawed or the threat to freedom test is indeed blocked traffic in cairo tuesday angry with the results of the referendum a new charger of power is the traditional to fleece parliament's upper chamber

which will hold legend of legislative powers now until the lower house is elected within the next two months the opposition's though is that worried that the muslim dominated body which held its first session wednesday will deal a blow to rights for women and minorities. this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president cannot resolve the egyptian parliament and cannot. have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other centers as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democratic elections that brought the. jews to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises of. better security. conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in

the presidential elections around fifty one percent of the vote is declining going down mainly because not permanent opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while the end not delivered so now people have expectations and they can control politicians. in the new year and here are taken stock of the events would shape twenty twelve for all of us today we look at coverage of the u.s. presidential debates and the struggle for those candidates who didn't have multibillion dollar companies to still try and get a voice. we have been running the election of close to your ears more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show and cetera et cetera still given

voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture . we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system which is a multiple party to what might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open debate on a wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know are the right heads in the country to compete and then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they're pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion that will fly with the four washington establishment

the other networks covered president obama and governor romney to debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked. i want to talk about the want drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you know in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact the election well that that would be the pie in the sky is that that would impact the election and let me just give you a chronology. of the libertarian party. the fact is you go from an annoyance to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties because parties into that which are blocking traffic to the corporate america right i think you know. i feel like this is

a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for and. we've got more recollections of the year just gone from our news teams across the border at r.t. coming up over the next few days who are enjoying a well dmitri say with the business no rest for the wicked is it your christmas day yesterday because it isn't christmas in. russia it is a working day get in america today was boxing day in britain hard to follow all this has been some action in america has now been action traders have come back to the market and again they continue basically the third consecutive session of losses because of this no matter what facing the fiscal cliff notes has been talked about an awful lot it's not called a looming tomorrow is it but it is a big worry it is a huge worry although there is a reassuring stay.